Excel finding the next blank cell and populate it

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Hi,

I have made an application that populates a spreadsheet with several pieces of data. The data that is static (the data is always required in the same cell e.g. "A1") is fine and works a dream. However I need to work out how to make the program automatically check if the cell on in the next row is blank. Example:

I have a mall table in excel with months and some data:

Jan--------10
Feb--------11
March------21
April
May

Now next month I want the data to go in the April row and the following month May etc I have no idea how to do this my idea was to basically say look down the column when theres a blank fill it with the required data. will this work? If so how do I set about looking for empty cells, Im lost on this one!

Cheers the help.

Dan

Posted 11-Jul-11 2:38am

DanHodgson88

Updated 11-Jul-11 2:39am

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Reiss · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-11T04:07:00

Solution 1

You can use the offset property to check the value of the next cell.

ActiveCell.offset(row, column).Value

you can then wrap some recursion round this to find the first empty row/column as required.

Posted 11-Jul-11 4:07am

Reiss

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DanHodgson88 11-Jul-11 10:29am

nice didn't know you could do that, found a solution to if you look below but yours is "nicer" than mine :)

Reiss 11-Jul-11 11:01am

Glad you got it working, also kudos for working it out yourself ;-)

DanHodgson88 · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-11T04:28:00

I believe I've found the way to find a blank cell, now got to put it in a loop to run through rows but for anyone whose interested. the code is:

int i = 0;

while(((excel.Range)xlWorkSheet.Cells[i,"Y"].Value2 != null)
{
   i++;
}

xlWorkSHeet.get_Range("Y"+i,misValue).Value = landfill.Value;

May help someone else out :)